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Comrade Gubkin!

I have sent your letter of 22 September to Smilga.* Predtechensky is needed by Smilga. Baku is more important. You will have to find a deputy for yourself. Have you submitted to print the data (from your letter of 22 September) on the successes of shale as such? Release it to the general press and inform me in which issues it appeared.

With communist greetings,
Lenin

copies

First published in 1933

in the Lenin Collection XXIII

Printed from the typewritten